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<center><h1>Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary
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on the Whole Bible</h1>
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<h3><a href="http://www.biblesnet.com" target="_blank">Back to Biblesnet.com Home Page</a>
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[<A HREF="MHC00000.HTM">Table of Contents</A>]<BR>
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Matthew Henry<BR><I>Commentary on the Whole Bible</I> (1721)
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Galatians</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by J<FONT SIZE=-1>OSHUA</FONT> B<FONT SIZE=-1>AYES</FONT>.</P>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC48001.HTM">Chapter 1</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC48002.HTM">Chapter 2</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC48003.HTM">Chapter 3</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC48004.HTM">Chapter 4</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC48005.HTM">Chapter 5</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC48006.HTM">Chapter 6</A>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>T H E G A L A T I A N S.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HIS</FONT>
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epistle of Paul is directed not to the church or churches of a single
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city, as some others are, but of a country or province, for so Galatia
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was. It is very probable that these Galatians were first converted to
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the Christian faith by his ministry; or, if he was not the instrument
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of planting, yet at least he had been employed in watering these
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churches, as is evident from this epistle itself, and also from
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+18:23">Acts xviii. 23</A>,
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where we find him going over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in
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order, strengthening all the disciples. While he was with them, they
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had expressed the greatest esteem and affection both for his person and
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ministry; but he had not been long absent from them before some
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judaizing teachers got in among them, by whose arts and insinuations
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they were soon drawn into a meaner opinion both of the one and of the
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other. That which these false teachers chiefly aimed at was to draw
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them off from the truth as it is in Jesus, particularly in the great
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doctrine of justification, which they grossly perverted, by asserting
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the necessity of joining the observance of the law of Moses with faith
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in Christ in order to it: and, the better to accomplish this their
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design, they did all they could to lessen the character and reputation
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of the apostle, and to raise up their own on the ruins of his,
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representing him as one who, if he was to be owned as an apostle, yet
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was much inferior to others, and particularly who deserved not such a
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regard as Peter, James, and John, whose followers, it is likely, they
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pretended to be: and in both these attempts they had but too great
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success. This was the occasion of his writing this epistle, wherein he
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expresses his great concern that they had suffered themselves to be so
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soon turned aside from the faith of the gospel, vindicates his own
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character and authority as an apostle against the aspersions of his
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enemies, showing that his mission and doctrine were both divine, and
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that he was not, upon any account, <I>behind the very chief of the
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apostles,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Co+11:5">2 Cor. xi. 5</A>.
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He then sets himself to assert and maintain the great gospel doctrine
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of justification by faith without the works of the law, and to obviate
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some difficulties that might be apt to arise in their minds concerning
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it: and, having established this important doctrine, he exhorts them to
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stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free, cautions
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them against the abuse of this liberty, gives them several very needful
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counsels and directions and then concludes the epistle by giving them a
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just description of those false teachers by whom they had been
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ensnared, and, on the contrary, of his own temper and behaviour. In all
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this his great scope and design were to recover those who had been
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perverted, to settle those who might be wavering, and to confirm such
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